St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12
No TRACE had been found up to che I'd

No TRACE had been found up to che I'd
of Charles Talbot, who stole Fanny Dav'
EXPORTS diamonds at Memphis, Tenn.
The reight-handlers in the Pennsyl,
vania railroad depot at Jersey City, n. j.,
have joined the strike.
SEVEN masked men attempted to rob
the post-otfice at Jersey City, N. j., On the
night of the 1st, but the safe resisted ali
their efforts to opsn it.
DURING q recent terrible storm at sea
one sailor was killed and eight others were
injured on the steamer Arizona, which II.
rived at New York on the I'd.
Mr.. j. II. CHENEY. receiver of the Lans
Erie & Western road, has released it to
Mr. Geo. i. Bradbury, general manage
under the new purchase.
HENRY DoBBs, Junior member of tho
commission firm of Sails, McLeon q Co.,
of Kansas City, Mo, is missing. as is also
several thousand dollars of the firm S
money.
A FIRE, starting in the annex of the r..
ternatonal Hotel, Helena, Mont, on the
I'd, destroyed four buildings. Loss, So
000 insurance about one-third. The mer-
curry stood at forty degrees below zero.
One man, an artist, is thought to have
been burned to death. Another man was
in jured.
DURING fog in Cincinnati, on the I'd
the rear carriage of a funeral procession
crossing the Bee Line track in the west
ern part of the city, was struck by ID pass.
ing engine and the driver was seriously
injured. One horse was killed. but the
occupants of the carriage escaped.
FIRB broke out in the steam laundry con-
nected with the femsIe department of the
State Industrial Home at Rochester, N.
v, on the morning Of the ID, and spread
like wilddre throughout the building.
which is fine structure four stories in
height. TIE inmates We're all rescued
safely The loss will reach 1000; no
insurance.
THE factory of the Fond du Lac (Wis.)
Furniture Company was burned on the
morning CT the I'd. Loss, $4,000; no insur-
ance. Forty thousand dollars of the loss
is to the company and $4,000 personal to
c. j. L. Meyers.
EVIDENCE is az hand that the retiring
Government of the Province of Ontario
has'been run in the interest of a ring as
corrupt and INSCRIPTIONS as was ever the
Tweed Ring in New York in its palmiesr
DAYS.
The President is said to object to the
Interstate commerce Dill by reason OF
uncertain phraseology and the probable
effect of the operation of the long and
short haul and pooling sections.
Two UNSUCCESSFUL attempts were made
on the night of the 1st to wreck passenger
trains on the Louisville, Evansville & St.
Louis railway.
A LARGE number of fire alarm telegraph
boxes were burned at Louisville, KY, on
the I'd by the fire-alarm and electric-light
wires coming in contact with each other.
THE President has accepted a section Of
the Oregon & California railroad, begin
ming at point forty-ive miles south of
Roseburg, Ore, and running south hun.
dred miles.
ABOUT forty or fifty cattle-growers of
the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana
and Illinois met on the I'd at the Grand
Hotel, Cincinnati, ond organized the Ohio
Valley Cattle Growers Association.
EIGHT HUNDRED troops embarked at
Naples on the 3D. for Massowah to reinforce
the Italian army there. A second de-
tachment will be sent on the It'll.